The Best Hacker News Posts of February 2016

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A Message to Our Customers apple.com · epaga · 17 Feb 2016

5.8k pts 967 comments

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Physicists Detect Gravitational Waves, Proving Einstein Right nytimes.com · intull · 11 Feb 2016

2k pts 483 comments

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Stripe Atlas stripe.com · hepha1979 · 24 Feb 2016

1.7k pts 390 comments

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Graphing when your Facebook friends are awake defaultnamehere.tumblr.com · adamch · 19 Feb 2016

1.3k pts 189 comments

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Apple’s declining software quality sudophilosophical.com · pljns · 4 Feb 2016

1.3k pts 705 comments

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Introducing the Keybase filesystem keybase.io · rdl · 4 Feb 2016

1.3k pts 462 comments

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Microsoft Acquires Xamarin weblogs.asp.net · legomaster · 24 Feb 2016

1.1k pts 383 comments

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LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value businessinsider.com · danso · 5 Feb 2016

1k pts 635 comments

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Vulkan is Here khronos.org · ekianjo · 16 Feb 2016

903 pts 201 comments

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Microsoft, Google, Facebook Back Apple in Blocked Phone Case bloomberg.com · sbuk · 25 Feb 2016

888 pts 240 comments

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3D printed sundial whose precise holes cast a shadow displaying the current time mojoptix.com · edward · 13 Feb 2016

839 pts 92 comments

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Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client nickforall.nl · cujanovic · 24 Feb 2016

827 pts 462 comments

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Show HN: I've been writing daily TILs for a year github.com · jbranchaud · 9 Feb 2016

819 pts 150 comments

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GitHub is undergoing a full-blown overhaul as execs and employees depart businessinsider.com · easyd · 6 Feb 2016

808 pts 973 comments

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Brooklyn Judge: Feds Can't Use All Writs Act to Force Apple's Hand [pdf] blogs.reuters.com · coloneltcb · 29 Feb 2016

797 pts 188 comments

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GitHub responds to Dear GitHub letter github.com · joshmanders · 12 Feb 2016

763 pts 332 comments

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Sci-Hub: Removing barriers in the way of science sci-hub.io · kasbah · 13 Feb 2016

760 pts 217 comments

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AI generated music to improve focus, relaxation and sleep brain.fm · jasbrainfm · 21 Feb 2016

744 pts 301 comments

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Alphabet Becomes the Most Valuable Public Company in the World techcrunch.com · pearlsteinj · 1 Feb 2016

720 pts 419 comments

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Spotify moves its back end to Google Cloud news.spotify.com · dmichel · 23 Feb 2016

715 pts 381 comments

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No More Deceptive Download Buttons googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com · r721 · 4 Feb 2016

706 pts 253 comments

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Too many people have peed in the pool stephenfry.com · ctz · 15 Feb 2016

694 pts 511 comments

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Microsoft Edge records browsing history in InPrivate mode betanews.com · fgeorgy · 1 Feb 2016

686 pts 213 comments

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Apple ordered to bypass auto-erase on San Bernadino shooter's iPhone techdirt.com · bgentry · 17 Feb 2016

685 pts 348 comments

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India bans discriminatory pricing based on source/destination/app/content blog.savetheinternet.in · scorpion032 · 8 Feb 2016

684 pts 216 comments

26

I no longer understand my PhD dissertation medium.com · refrigerator · 14 Feb 2016

682 pts 271 comments

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Raspberry Pi 3 on Sale raspberrypi.org · MarcScott · 29 Feb 2016

677 pts 304 comments

28

What Google Learned from Its Quest to Build the Perfect Team nytimes.com · aarghh · 25 Feb 2016

667 pts 263 comments

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We Need a Better PC blog.dcpos.ch · dcposch · 17 Feb 2016

659 pts 686 comments

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Mozilla Webrender: rendering any webpage at several hundred FPS air.mozilla.org · bpierre · 25 Feb 2016

646 pts 222 comments

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Choose GitLab for your next open source project b.agilob.net · ra7 · 12 Feb 2016

645 pts 280 comments

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Snowden: FBI obscuring crucial details in Apple case twitter.com · Karunamon · 20 Feb 2016

643 pts 209 comments

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Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software latimes.com · molecule · 8 Feb 2016

641 pts 585 comments

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How Google’s Web Crawler Bypasses Paywalls elaineou.com · elaineo · 19 Feb 2016

640 pts 232 comments

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Justice Department Wants Apple to Unlock Nine More iPhones nytimes.com · jstreebin · 24 Feb 2016

636 pts 304 comments

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iTerm2 Version 3 Now in Beta iterm2.com · rickhanlonii · 18 Feb 2016

622 pts 242 comments

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Apple Is Said to Be Working on an iPhone Even It Can’t Hack nytimes.com · rquantz · 24 Feb 2016

620 pts 401 comments

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SoundCloud could be forced to close after $44m losses factmag.com · neokya · 11 Feb 2016

620 pts 339 comments

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Show HN: Htop 2.0 released, now cross-platform hisham.hm · hisham_hm · 11 Feb 2016

613 pts 153 comments

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Please don't use Slack for FOSS projects drewdevault.com · ipozgaj · 1 Feb 2016

612 pts 380 comments

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GitLab 8.5 released about.gitlab.com · doubleg · 22 Feb 2016

603 pts 241 comments

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Windows Now Showing Full-Screen Ads howtogeek.com · tasoeur · 24 Feb 2016

599 pts 358 comments

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Ghost in the Shell remains our most challenging film about technology newstatesman.com · noir-york · 29 Feb 2016

599 pts 191 comments

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MentalHealthError: an exception occurred kennethreitz.org · cool-RR · 27 Feb 2016

593 pts 186 comments

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Draft.js – Rich Text Editor Framework for React facebook.github.io · tilt · 22 Feb 2016

592 pts 112 comments

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No patent if invention lies only in computer program, says Indian Patent Office business-standard.com · joshsharp · 23 Feb 2016

590 pts 181 comments

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15 years of VLC and VideoLAN jbkempf.com · bpierre · 1 Feb 2016

585 pts 149 comments

48

Parker Conrad Steps Down as Zenefits CEO buzzfeed.com · philip1209 · 9 Feb 2016

581 pts 232 comments

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My Little Sister Taught Me How to “Snapchat Like the Teens” buzzfeed.com · jseliger · 10 Feb 2016

577 pts 347 comments

50

Go 1.6 is Released blog.golang.org · geetarista · 17 Feb 2016

562 pts 354 comments

51

Write code that is easy to delete, not easy to extend programmingisterrible.com · AndrewDucker · 13 Feb 2016

559 pts 133 comments

52

Umberto Eco has died bbc.com · kawera · 20 Feb 2016

546 pts 126 comments

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Answers to your questions about Apple and security apple.com · mrexroad · 22 Feb 2016

545 pts 365 comments

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The Elephant in the Room: Web design work is drying up sazzy.co.uk · acconrad · 24 Feb 2016

540 pts 332 comments

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Sci-Hub as necessary, effective civil disobedience bjoern.brembs.net · ingve · 25 Feb 2016

525 pts 157 comments

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German government to use Trojan spyware to monitor citizens dw.com · temp · 23 Feb 2016

520 pts 185 comments

57

Issue and Pull Request templates github.com · joshmanders · 17 Feb 2016

520 pts 135 comments

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Raspberry Pi 3 Model B confirmed, with onboard BT LE and WiFi apps.fcc.gov · merah · 26 Feb 2016

518 pts 213 comments

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Maybe: run a command, see what it does to your files without actually doing it github.com · colund · 6 Feb 2016

515 pts 94 comments

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Atlas, the Next Generation [video] youtube.com · bpierre · 24 Feb 2016

509 pts 175 comments